Numbered lists of steps – 10 ways to reduce outside counsel costs, for example – appeal to many people. A list presupposes that the compiler gave some thought to which points were most important. A list implicitly claims that who put it together knows what they are talking about and…
In a rare departure from my Presbyterian style of just the facts or only the ideas, here is a photograph. That’s my wonderful wife, Anne, next to me, lest you be unsure who is who. Just for the record, my little guy, Will, age 6, is not actually brain-dead, but…
One puzzling finding struck to me when I checked the latest poll results of who visits this blog? As of today, 111 people have responded to my poll on the upper right. Law department lawyers are exactly half of them and law department non-lawyers another 10 percent. What struck me…
This post continues my series of thanks and gratitude. Both are due when other blogs or websites cite one of my posts or include me on their blog roll. I have thanked 53 so far, and here add another 13 (See my post of June 17, 2009: 14 blogs/websites that…
The difference between normative economics and positive economics comes from Deirdre McCloskey, How to Be Human Though an Economist (U. of Mich. 2000) at 62-63. As the distinction applies to managers of in-house lawyers, a normative view says whether a management decision is good or bad (practically, morally, financially, etc.).…
So far, 50 people have been good enough to click on the poll to the right and indicate their position. The plurality are law department lawyers (46%), followed by law firm lawyers (16%) and service providers (14 percent). Non-lawyer members of law departments account for 12 percent of those who…
Here are the ten best from my 99 posts in June 2009. If the brief description of the post entices you, click on the post title to read it all. If you would these posts in a file, email me and I will be happy to send them to you…
Just as this blogger does not try for encyclopedic pieces or comprehensive treatments of topics, he no longer writes traditional book reviews. But he will plunder thoughtful points from a book, and has done so abundantly with Leigh Dance’s stimulating book, Bright Ideas: Insights from Legal Luminaries Worldwide (Mill City…
Through its first 4,500 posts and 52 months, this blog piled up 903,932 words. The Word document in which I have combined those posts has margins of a half inch on all sides and totals 1,456 pages. Metrics nuts will immediately note that the profusion amounts to 0.323 pages per…
Ideas and issues about management of corporate legal functions thrive outside of what I encounter or think up. To help remedy my blind spots, I have welcomed to date and very much appreciated the insights of six co-authors: Brad Blickstein, George Cunningham, Bruce Heintz, Jeff Kaplan, Jane DiRenzo Pigott, and…